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The Death of a Naturalist

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All Year the Flexdam Festered in the Heart

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The Death of a Naturalist

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For they were Yellow in the Sun and Brown in the Rain

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The Death of a Naturalist

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That if I Dipped my Hand the Spawn would Clutch it

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Manhunt

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Only then Would he let me Trace the Frozen River which ran through his Face

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Manhunt

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The Parachute Silk of his Punctured Lung

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Manhunt

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Then, and only then, did I come close

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Mammetz Wood

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  • Welsh Poet
  • Real Place in France
  • The Battle of Somme in 1916
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Dulce et Decorum Est

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  • Known for Horrific Imagery
  • Written as a Direct Reply to Jessie Pope
  • Published Posthumously (After Death)
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A Wife in London

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  • The Boer War (1899-1902)
  • Was Against War
  • Britain Lost Numbers (Unprepared)
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Cozy Apologia

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  • A Tribute to her Husband Fred
  • Reflects on her Relationship
  • Hurricane Floyd Hit the Coast of the USA in 1999
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Valentine

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  • Scottish Poet
  • Was Poet Laureate
  • LGBT
  • Challenges Stereotypes
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To Autumn

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  • Ode
  • Diagnosed with TB (Poem Reflects Feelings)
  • Death at 25
  • Romantic Poet
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Afternoons

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  • Born in Coventry
  • Never Married
  • Famous for Celebrating the Ordinary
  • Offered Poet Laureate (Declined it)
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The Prelude

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  • Taken from a Bigger Poem
  • Autobiographical
  • Influential Romantic Poet
  • Happy Memories before Parents Death
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Sonnet 43

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  • Victorian Poet
  • Had a Life-long Illness
  • Dedicated to her Husband
  • Published Poems in Portuguese
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She Walks in Beauty

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  • Wrote about his Cousins Wife
  • Known as Ladies Man
  • Romantic Poet
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Living Space

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  • Born in Pakistan, Raised in Scotland
  • She wants to Challenge what she sees in the World Through Poetry
  • Slums in Mumbai
18
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Manhunt

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  • Current Poet Laureate
  • About Bosnian Crisis
  • About Laura (Laura’s Story)
  • Used in a Channel 4 Documentary
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Death of a Naturalist

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  • Irish Poet
  • Influenced by Nature
  • Brother Died at 4 (he was 12)
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As Imperceptibly as Grief

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  • Became a Recluse
  • Rarely went out after 1865
  • Poems Inspired by Nature
  • Born in USA
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The Soldier

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  • Never Went to War
  • Commissioned into the Royal Naval Division
  • Died from a Mosquito Bite
  • Buried in an Olive Grove on the Greek Island of Skyros
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London

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  • Published 1794
  • Very Religious (Didn’t like the Church)
  • Lived and Worked in London
  • During Industrial Revolution